Holiday Hockey Recap/GRS Top 25

College hockey is generally pretty quiet during the holiday season. The most action occurs after the new year with several tournaments across the country which means a ton of non-conference action. This is an area that has not been kind to RIT this year. The Tigers headed out to Minnesota State in Mankato, MN for two non-conference games with the Mavericks just after the new year. Unfortunately they lost both games, 6-1 and 3-0. This leaves the Tigers with an overall record of 9-8-1, but have gone 0-6 in non-conference action this year.

RIT is, however, positioned well in AHA action where they have 4 games in hand on Mercyhurst and Air Force and are just 1 point behind in the standings. The Tigers are 9-2-1 in conference play where I believe they are the best team. There is a stretch of 6 games here that should be wins for the Tigers. They can really distance themselves from the rest of the pack in the AHA by taking wins in all 6 games. They start off conference play in 2010 with Holy Cross this weekend, a team that they have never lost to at the Division I level. I am taking my 2 1/2 year old son to the game at The Ritter tonight and will bring along my camera so I can include some pictures in my hockey recap for next week.

As a result of 3 non-conference losses since my last GRS Top 25, RIT is no longer in the rankings. Hopefully the next 6 games will enable the Tigers to claw back into the GRS Top 25. Nevertheless, here are my rankings.